DAEGU, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – With just a week to go before the Daegu Queer Culture Festival, tensions are escalating as both organizers and opponents have turned to the courts, filing injunctions that underscore the deeply divisive nature of LGBTQ+ rights in this conservative city. On September 19, the festival’s organizing committee submitted an emergency [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean Methodist pastor who blessed sexual minorities by sprinkling flower petals over them at a Queer Culture Festival has been put on trial in a church court for ‘advocating homosexuality.’ Even within the protestant church communities which have a strong conservative theological background, it’s unusual for a pastor [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Anti-gay views and even hate crimes against members of the LGBT community have been on the rise recently. The Orlando mass shooting that just occurred two days ago was also a hate crime against the gay community, with 49 casualties and dozens more badly injured, according to BBC News. In [...]